Project helps enhance meal quality for under-5 children
Mothers having under 2 year-old children in rural areas in the northern mountainous provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang have benefited from a nutrition communications project launched by the National Institute of Nutrition under the Ministry of Health from April 2014 to March 2017.
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It has assisted communal officials in communication activities to popularise sufficient nutrition and safe supplements for children aging between 6-24 months, while providing mothers with knowledge of food safety and nutrition for children.
Meanwhile, it also worked to change care givers’ practices in making supplementary food for children, contributing to minimising the malnourished ratio among under-five-year-old children.
According to the National Institute of Nutrition, the project has also offered training courses for the Preventive Medicine Departments in districts and provinces on the topic.
The project has been expanded to the northern provinces of Ha Nam and Ninh Binh since April this year.
